bashful
意味
- (特に子供が)はにかみやの,内気な(very shy)
例文
The boy is bashful and doesn't talk much.
少年は内気であまりしゃべらない。
She is not so much unsociable as bashful.
彼女は人付き合いが悪いと言うより内気なのです。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
16th-century apheresis of abashed + -ful (“full of”).
The boy is bashful and doesn't talk much.
少年は内気であまりしゃべらない。
She is not so much unsociable as bashful.
彼女は人付き合いが悪いと言うより内気なのです。
16th-century apheresis of abashed + -ful (“full of”).